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How easy is Yoruba for Russian speakers?

Going from Russian to Yoruba (Yorùbá) has a composite linguistic distance of 90% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

90% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

38%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Cyrillic → Latin

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Niger-Congo

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Other easy languages for Russian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Russian:

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Belarusian

11% distance
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Ukrainian

19% distance
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Macedonian

37% distance
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Croatian/Serbian

37% distance
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Bulgarian

38% distance

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